[ICOM] IC 725 Won't Transmit

[Lee Mairs (SAG)]

Gary -
No dead spots that I noticed, TX light comes on.  Don't know about AM 
or CW.  I will have to get the radio down from the shelf and try it 
out.  It took me awhile to even recognize that the problem was with 
the radio and not the antenna system.

Very subtle failure - all of a sudden nobody was hearing me...
73 de Lee
KM4YY/8


Gary Fiber wrote:
> Lee,
> 
> Any other symptoms like dead spots in the receive while tuning the main 
> dial? Does the TX light illuminate when you press the PTT? Will it 
> transmit in AM, CW ?
> 
> Gary K8IZ
> 
> At 06:26 AM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
>> My IC 725 started out to intermittently refuse to transmit.  I could 
>> fix the problem by cycling the power off and then back on after a few 
>> seconds.  I wasted a good six months convinced that the problem was in 
>> the Tarheel antenna system in my mobile, but after lending the radio 
>> to a friend discovered that the problem was independent of being mobile.
>>
>> The radio now is virtually unusable as the period between 
>> intermittent  failures is only a few minutes.
>>
>> Any clues out there?
>>
>> 73 de Lee
>> KM4YY/8
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> 
> Gary Fiber K8IZ
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